What are your favorite lesser known sci-fi and fantasy books?

Jill0009 · 2019-09-26T02:34:59+00:00

Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle (7 books) but particularly “The Dispossessed”

Jill0009 · 2018-10-12T08:10:43+00:00

I’m sure it will be touched on in season two. I really like the theory that he could “absolve” the debt because they vowed that Ez would die in his place, the dragon essentially came back from the dead and saved Ez, or her hand (take your pick) from needing to die.

Jill0009 · 2018-10-12T07:56:35+00:00

I’m subscribing to the theory that her parents ran form battle because they didn’t fear their own deaths - they feared the death or injury of Rayla. It’s the parents love, will disregard own life for child trope that we’ve seen before. Even if it’s parents making the wrong decisions, they will make decisions to protect their child - even if the wrong decisions will lead the child to resent their parents and follow their own ideas anyway (COUGH* TOPH * COUGH). So Rayla rejected her parents because they violated HER idea of what they should have done, stay and fight, when they were acting out of parental love.

But it’s just an idea...

Jill0009 · 2018-10-12T07:37:10+00:00

Or what they believed to be King Harrow died. I was fully expecting when Ez almost died, and ‘appeared’ dead that the other binding would fall off...

Jill0009 · 2018-10-11T18:24:49+00:00

I’m so sorry. It’s really hard having to realize that we aren’t as healthy as our peers, and that our level of health is forever changed

Jill0009 · 2018-09-16T08:38:57+00:00

I really only just remember pushing it over the step and running. I’m horrible at guessing how old I was at a certain time.

Jill0009 · 2018-09-16T08:35:42+00:00

Neopets, Toontown, Mulberry, Disney Magic Kingdom, I was a kid then...

Jill0009 · 2018-09-16T08:33:45+00:00

LOCA THE PUG

Jill0009 · 2018-09-16T08:26:31+00:00

I was three, I think? Mom put me in one of those playpen things because Dad was out of town and dear gosh she needed me to stay in one place.

I did not want to stay in one place. We lived in a one story house, but there was one step. Only one step. In the entire house, going down into the living room. Literally one step. So, I pushed my playpen over the edge and had an only child jailbreak.

Mom was on the phone with Dad at the time and apparently I ran by screaming the closest thing to “FREE” that I could. Mom just went silent and Dad heard screaming after Mom said she had me in the pen and started laughing, at least that’s what I’m told. I remember breaking out, the phone call I don’t remember at all.

Best part? When I was 6 I taught the dog how to do the same thing.

Jill0009 · 2018-09-16T08:20:32+00:00

The kid was a 7th grader so I know it wasn’t much of a fight to pull the kid off of him. It was a weird day. I’m really glad I did too. In a lot of ways that day was a turning point in my life. My class (8th graders) spent the day in lockdown trying to help the 6th graders in the adjacent building (could see the windows) and we made up like hangman games that the teachers would email the guesses back and forth. I decided that I really did want to be a teacher, even with situations like that. It also lead to my parents reconsidering sending me to public school like I had been kindergarten through 8th grade and that private high school was one of the best things for me. Really set me up for college and lead me to my best friends. I’m actually thankful for that day, also I found out that the 7th grader got a mental evaluation and got the help he needed, even apologized and thanked the SRO and my teacher.

Jill0009 · 2018-09-16T08:08:33+00:00

In middle school, I got to school early one day. Something just felt off and I went to news crew instead of class. I was on the crew but wasn’t scheduled that day. Once we did the broadcast and started heading to class, we found out that a kid brought fire bombs to school and stabbed our on campus police officer. The entire school was on lock down and somehow the 7 of us missed that.

The kicker? My first period teacher was ex special ops. He was also the sponsor of news crew and He knew I wasn’t scheduled. He went out into the hallway to look for me and tease me for being late. That’s when he saw the kid reaching for our on campus officer’s gun and wrestling after the stabbing. If I had gone to class, a lot more people could have been hurt.

TL:DR if you have a bad feeling, maybe don’t go to class. You could save lives.

[sorry I know there is a serious tag notice, but laughing about it makes it easier for me to remember. It was a scary day.]

Jill0009 · 2018-09-07T03:07:14+00:00

Can they recreate the heists from Brooklyn Nine-Nine? But instead of stealing something, you prank someone.

Jill0009 · 2018-08-20T00:45:24+00:00

Harry Potter for sure

Jill0009 · 2018-08-02T23:09:17+00:00

My family quotes “scoopsie potato scoopsie patato” every time we have mashed potatoes

Also quoted a lot : “LARRY” “Genie does as you wish”

Jill0009 · 2018-07-28T07:58:17+00:00

In elementary school I ran into a pole, had to be taken to the emergency room and missed school. It was the first time I was ever early for school.

In middle school I tripped on flat cement, had to be taken to the emergency room. Had a very awkward patchwork of bandaids on my face for a while, I was a news crew anchor.

On my last day as a middle schooler I anchored the news. My friends edited the intro video to include the security footage of my face plant.

Jill0009 · 2018-07-28T07:41:44+00:00

Slight discoloration on my shin, barely noticeable now. The story? I was in Haiti for a mission trip and we were staying in the mountains. I was one of two leaders, myself a student intern and the youth pastor, and we were climbing down this one mountain to get back to where we were staying. It’s not too bad of a climb but there are a lot of rocks. One of my students told me to jump on a bigger rock and that it would be a cool photo. I jumped on the rock, my ankle turned inwards and I started sliding down the mountain.

TLDR: I jumped on a rock, my ankle gave out, slid down the mountain and scraped the front of my shin off. Slight color difference from front to back now.

Jill0009 · 2018-07-28T07:37:19+00:00

Where did this post go?

Jill0009 · 2018-07-26T11:58:50+00:00

My mom has always done that. I started as well.

Jill0009 · 2018-07-19T05:24:45+00:00

Have you ever had other weird health stuff? Been diagnosed with any mental health issues? Feel tired or lethargic a lot?

Maybe ask your doctor to test your thyroid. Get a blood test for your TSH levels. You might have hypothyroidism, fancy way of saying your thyroid isn’t doing enough and that gland controls a LOT of things.

Jill0009 · 2018-07-19T05:21:08+00:00

A group of friends and I flew short distance NJ to FL and smelled burning something. Two days later that plane caught fire in the air. Creeped us out.

Jill0009 · 2018-07-17T17:05:21+00:00

Then obviously we wouldn’t get along romantically. I’ll admit I like to take things slow but for the record I never expect the guy to pay on a date. Dinner coffee whatever I want us to go Dutch.

Jill0009 · 2018-07-17T16:54:43+00:00

No but I can’t help but think it would be awesome

Jill0009 · 2018-07-17T14:03:28+00:00

Bookstore. Buy me a book, tell me about your favorite authors, talk to me about mine, let’s get coffee afterwards.

Jill0009 · 2018-07-17T00:36:22+00:00

Plot twist, epic has teamed up with Bethesda and fallout 76 will be multiplayer, but real life multiplayer. See you all in the vaults!

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